As part of the 2017 Spring Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will present a discussion with puppeteers Clare Dolan and Dave Buchen titled Banners and Cranks on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 7 p.m. in the Ballard Institute Theater, located at 1 Royce Circle in Storrs Center.
In conjunction with the concurrent Banners and Cranks exhibition at the Ballard Institute, curator Clare Dolan, puppeteer and director of Vermont's Museum of Everyday Life; and Puerto-Rico based puppeteer, author, and visual artist Dave Buchen talk about the old-and-new international painting and performance medium they have nurtured since the first Banners and Cranks festival in 2010. In addition, Dolan and Buchen will perform in the Ballard Institute's first-ever Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival on April 14 at 7 p.m.and April 15 at 2 p.m. Tickets for the festival are available at bimp.ticketleap.com. Clare Dolan is a painter, director, and performer of cantastoria, toy theater, outdoor puppetry, and stilt dancing, while simultaneously living a secret double life as a nurse in her small Vermont town. She's a veteran of the Bread and Puppet Theater, co-curator of Banners and Cranks (along with Dave Buchen), and Founder/Chief Operating Philosopher of The Museum of Everyday Life, a five-year-old museum experiment in Glover, Vermont, whose goal is to explore, analyze and celebrate everyday life objects.Videos